CAVE BURIAL

Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains

Roche Point Cave

Also known as St Samson’s Cave


Excavation

c 1800

Curation

Tenby Museum.

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

Bronze Sword, flint tools, animal bones

Dates

PeriodReliability
UnknownNo reliable dating information available

14C

-.

Stackpole

Swansea

Wales

NGR: SR 9770 9458

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External References

Sites and Monument Record622, 49597, 84745
Cambrian Caving Council Record2016-2

Bibliography

Baring-Gould, S. (1905) A Book of South Wales. London: Methuen. pp193 & 195.

Benson, D.G., Evans, J.G., Williams, G.H., Darvill, T. & Davies, A. (1990) Excavations at Stackpole Warren, Dyfed. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 56: 179-245.

Bushell, W.D. (1903) The early life of St Samson of Dol. Archaeologia Cambrensis 3: 319-338.

Fenton, R. (1811) A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire. London, Longman.

Laws, E. (1888) The History of Little England Beyond Wales, and the Non-Kymric Colony Settled in Pembrokeshire. London, Bell. pp26-28.

RCAHM Wales. (1925) An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire. VII. County of Pembroke. London, HMSO.

Article Author Graham Mullan